The Clinical Center’s Fine Arts Program has collected and displayed art since 1984. A self-guided walking brochure has been created to allow patients, staff and visitors to easily locate and learn about works of art throughout the building.

With this brochure in hand, a person can navigate to the 130 numbered locations of art across six floors of the Hatfield building.

The mission of the Fine Arts Program is to pair art with medicine to promote healing in an aesthetically pleasing environment for patients, caregivers and employees. The Clinical Center art collection has more than 2,000 pieces of art including photography, sculptures, paintings, collages, watercolors, textiles, folk art and glass. The works explore imagery from abstract to representational. The collection is made possible in part through donations from artists, patients, staff and visitors.

While some artwork remains permanently on display in the building, there are six galleries which change every eight weeks, often exhibiting local artists. Each piece is available for purchase and 20 percent of the sales from the changing art exhibits benefit the Clinical Center Patient Emergency Fund. Since 1989, these galleries have raised over $75,000 to help patients in need.

Copies of the self-guided walking tour brochure can be found at the hospitality desk near the north entrance, reception desk near the P1 garage, patient library on the 7th floor, The Children’s Inn at NIH and The Edmond J. Safra Family Lodge at NIH. For more information, please contact Lillian Fitzgerald: 301.496.2862, vog.hin.ccnull@dlaregztifl. Read more: http://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/participate/patientinfo/services.shtml#other